Common household milling methods are just not up to the task, and most cannot crack the hard seed coats. In the past, local indigenous tribes used special grinding stones and a lot of physical effort.

A hammermill can crush and grind both the pith and the super hard seeds, discarding the inedible debris in the same process. The resulting yield is higher retention of the nutritious edible portion of the bean.

With this heavy duty, yet easily transportable mill, we can pound the tough mesquite beans into the nutritious flour in less than an hour, and do it wherever we set up our Pop-Up Milling events.